[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57383] cell2mat does not warn on mixed class numeric input

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #57383 (project octave):

I don't think a warning is necessary here.  The rules for mathematical
operations involving mixed types (integers, singles, doubles) are
well-defined.  Concatenation is just another mathematical operation and
follows the same rules.

As an example, should there be a warning for this code?


octave:2> x = 1 + single (2)
x = 3
octave:3> class (x)
ans = single


This works the same with integers


octave:7> x = 1 + int8 (2)
x = 3
octave:8> class (x)
ans = int8


And it works the same way with cell2mat


octave:4> a = { pi, int8(1) }
a =
{
  [1,1] = 3.1416
  [1,2] = 1
}

octave:5> x = cell2mat (a)
x =

  3  1

octave:6> class (x)
ans = int8




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